![]() | The Time Machine (Penguin Classics) by H.G. Wells
Buy new: £4.45 / Used from: £2.34 Arguably the greatest SF story ever written. Kent born writer.
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![]() | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.09 / Used from: £2.86 Perhaps the greatest of all dystopian works. In this vision, there is editing of history & language to ensure that even the thoughts of the populace are progressively straitjacketed.
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![]() | Brave New World (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £4.29 A warning of the dangers of accelerated technological advance coupled with totalitarian rule; a world where genetically engineered castes are controlled through mind stultifying drugs & brain washing.
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![]() | Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Buy new: £3.55 / Used from: £1.10 Did Mary Shelley gift to the world the first SF novel? Academics and fans are still arguing over this.
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![]() | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford World's Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £3.46 / Used from: £0.97 A morality tale from a great Irish writer.
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![]() | A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £3.00 Nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, from a Mancunian born writer.
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![]() | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy new: £4.36 / Used from: £0.43 As I look at the young gangs on the street I think of this novel; this is a hint of what happens when children bring up children.
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![]() | Star Maker (S.F. Masterworks) by Olaf Stapledon
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £2.45 Not as deep and sonorous as 'Last and First Men' - but far pacier and more uplifting - this is another fine offering from Stapledon that builds towards a truly awe inspiring conclusion.
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![]() | Stand On Zanzibar by John Brunner
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £1.20 A hefty read; frankly a bit of a slog at times - but well worth it.
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![]() | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Answers many of the problems connected with life, including: 'Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches.
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![]() | The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
Buy used from: £1.20 The England in this novel has become a disconcerting, quasi-medieval land in the Age of Faith.
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![]() | The Affirmation (Gollancz S.F.) by Christopher Priest
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.26 A masterful examination of our ideas about memory and identity. I don't always find Priest an easy read, but that's no reason to leave him off the list.
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![]() | Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £2.98 First of a trilogy. Dr. Ransom is abducted and taken to the red planet of Malacandra. Ransom discovers Earth's tragic story is known throughout the universe.
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![]() | Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris May Lessing
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.48 A spiritual theme with big ideas. Shikasta showed me many things that I had taken for granted were in fact flimsy in substance.
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![]() | Dracula (Penguin Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £2.27 Dark, brooding & powerfully atmospheric. Uses letters & diaries v effectively; readers can compare one piece of evidence from Dr Seward with the events of Mina Harker's life & Lucy's sad diary.
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![]() | The Lost World (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.10 A thumping good read. Worthwhile for the character of Prof Challenger alone!
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![]() | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £1.08 What would we do without our literary mad scientists?
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![]() | Mort (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £1.75 Death's apprentice seemed like the dream job. Lots of humour and ironic footnotes.
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![]() | 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy used from: £0.01 You've seen the film, now ....
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![]() | The Dancers At The End of Time (S.F. Masterworks) by Michael Moorcock
Buy new: £6.61 / Used from: £3.00 Imagine a decadent far, far society, a time when anything is possible; where words like conscience are meaningless. Born in London.
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![]() | Consider Phlebas (The Culture) by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random.
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